…no presidential election ever being postponed, some are pointing to past precedents where voting has been delayed. New York City was holding its mayoral primary when terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, and the city rescheduled the election. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s governor postponed municipal elections in New Orleans after elections officials said polling places wou…
France is prepared for the second round of presidential election that could see a socialist winner for the first time since 1988. In the first round socialist Francois Hollande won 28.6% of the vote, ahead of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on 26.2%. Rising unemployment and the euro crisis have dominated the campaign. Nicolas Sarkozy says he averted recession and will preserve a “strong France…
Francois Hollande has been celebrating his victory in France’s presidential election. Socialist Francois Hollande – who polled just under 52% of votes in Sunday’s run-off election – said he was “proud to have been capable of giving people hope again”. Centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is the first French president not to win a second term since 1981. Franc…
…colas Sarkozy is facing a tough challenge from Socialist Francois Hollande, who has said it is “the left’s turn to govern”. There are 10 candidates in all, and if none wins more than 50% of the votes there will be a run-off round on 6 May. Polls in mainland France and Corsica are open until 18:00, with voting stations in big cities remaining open for a further two hours. The firs…
…putting in 14-hour days in an effort to deliver the state for Barack Obama. Average of national opinion polls shows Barack Obama heading into election day with a single-point lead among likely voters, 49% to 48%. Mitt Romney remains favored among whites, older people and evangelical Christians; Barack Obama among women, non-whites and young adults. In the crucial swing state of Ohio, a RealClearPo…
says. “It’s sexually male. Men put out their thumb and it says <<I am a man>>.” Ten of lesser-spotted things about American presidential politics and about 2012 campaign 5. Job titles are for life Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts for four years – and he left office almost six years ago. Yet he is still addressed as Governor Mitt Romney, as if that were…
…#8211; the economy being the most important one. It is very rare, he says, for a person to change their party affiliation, so the pool of persuadable voters is small, perhaps as little as around 2% or 3% he argues, once you exclude people who will not vote. But in a close race, tiny margins can be the difference between winning and losing. “The ads aren’t just trying to change the unde…
…ubarak’s failing health could be used as a distraction as Egypt awaits the result of the hotly disputed election. On Wednesday, the Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) said that some 400 election complaints had been filed by the two candidates. The commission said it needed more time to investigate the complaints, without giving any new date for the announcement of the results. H…
y” during a prime time national TV broadcast last night According to figures produced by INSEE, France’s national statistics and economic studies institute, industrial production in Britain is almost 5% higher than it is in France. And separate figures from the OECD show that in 2009, Industry accounted for 19% of French Gross Value Added – a measure of the value of goods and services linke…
t to a global economic recovery”. The word “bipartisanship” is one that has come out of the deep-freeze in the last couple of days. It will be needed. Ten signs Election Day is over 5. You only read Buzzfeed for pictures of cats Once upon a time, Buzzfeed was a site devoted to cats playing the piano, photos of kids with weird haircuts, and 90s nostalgia. But then Politico whiz-k…
lections The early indications are that turnout has been much lower than in the presidential elections in April, at about 60%. France’s 46 million eligible voters are picking representatives for 577 seats in the National Assembly. TNS Sofres, Ipsos and OpinonWay pollsters all agreed that the political left, including the Communist-backed Left Front, would win at least 289 seats in the 577-se…
g reelection become significantly smaller. Watch the Cincinnati metro area – which is perhaps the most important region of the state for determining the overall outcome. Barack Obama won Ohio by 5.4% in 2008. It is important to note that Barack Obama is likely to take an early lead in Ohio as early voters are counted first. Polls show he leads among people who cast their ballots before Elect…
…watched battle between the far right and the far left. The far-right National Front is hoping to follow up a strong performance in the recent presidential election by gaining its first presence in the 577-seat National Assembly since the 1980s. France is voting in parliamentary elections expected to determine the extent and pace of reform under new President Francois Hollande With the senate alre…
…Francois Hollande, President Nicolas Sarkozy said France had done better than other European countries in coping with the economic climate. “What is the country to not have known recession since 2009 – it is France,” Nicolas Sarkozy said. He rejected Francois Hollande’s proposed stimulus programmes, insisting that France had to cut spending and debts. Nicolas Sarkozy also a…
Malaysia’s ruling National Front coalition has won a simple majority in the country’s parliamentary election, extending its 56-year rule, with two-thirds of seats confirmed. PM Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional coalition had passed the threshold of 112 seats in the 222-seat parliament, the Election Commission said. Defeated opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim accused the party of widespread…
pen question but the Romney campaign thinks so. “What’s going on here is when you have intensity and momentum,” said the Romney adviser. “You ask voters who they’re voting for and they say 48, 47 points Obama. And then you look at the people who are eight, nine,10 on the intensity scale, Republicans have a high single digits to low double digits advantage. “That’s what you see in…
People in Hong Kong are voting for a new legislature, with pro-democracy candidates expected to benefit from weeks of anti-China protests. The poll comes a day after the government scrapped plans for mandatory Chinese patriotism lessons in schools. For the first time, 40 of the 70 seats on the governing legislative council will be directly elected. The results of the poll could keep on track plan…
…Philippot, research executive at the French Institute of Public Opinion in Paris. “The polls last week ago showed that around 24% of people didn’t want to vote, and the week before it was 30%. “So people have decided to vote at the last minute, young people and low-paid workers who are angry about unemployment and wanted to vote against the incumbent. Traditionally the older peo…
to re-elect President Barack Obama or hand the job to Republican Mitt Romney Also on Tuesday’s ballot are a handful of state governors, one third of the seats in the 100-member US Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans are expected to keep control of the House, while Democrats were tipped to do the same in the Senate. The presidential candidates spent Monday fr…
…said that there had been “a certain number of irregularities” in polling stations in the Alpes-Maritimes area. In one polling station in Paris, a party official complained that there were 40 more ballots than voters on the party list. Francois Fillon’s team also registered a complaint. The leading conservative daily newspaper, Le Figaro, called the election an open crisis and Fr…
…Malaysian PM Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional coalition is up against Pakatan Rakyat, a three-party alliance headed by Anwar Ibrahim Voters are faced with returning the ruling party, in power for 56 years, or choosing an untested opposition. Ahead of the polls, allegations of various forms of fraud emerged. At polling station in the capital Kuala Lumpur queues had formed well before voting be…
Libyan people are voting in their first free election for more than 50 years. They are selecting a temporary assembly which will have the task of picking a cabinet and a prime minister. But the vote has been overshadowed by violence and deep regional divisions. An electoral worker died on the eve of the vote when gunmen attacked a helicopter near Benghazi. Many people in eastern Libya are concern…
…pected soon after. The CDU and its national coalition partner, the Free Democrats, recently lost elections in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. The CDU scored its lowest tally in the state for 50 years. The poll in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will test the popularity of Chancellor Merkel’s CDU, as opposition to her strict austerity policies grows outside Germany. NRW, Germany’…
President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party has won enough seats in French parliament to form an absolute majority, according to exit polls obtained by the AFP news agency. The exit polls suggested Socialist Party and its allies would take more than 312 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly. If confirmed, it means the Socialists will not have to rely on support from either the Greens or the…
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